I'm going to be setting up a Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise OS on an old (but powerful) Dell XPS PC. I will then be running Ubuntu Server on top of it using VirtualBox. I need to have redundancy on the Ubuntu Server (not as important for the Win10 host install, although it would be preferable). The computer will have 3 HD's - 2 x 8 TB and 1 x 10 TB. My question though is what is the best way to go about getting that redundancy to avoid any performance decrease/loss on the Ubuntu server?
I think the Dell XPS has fakeRAID (although not certain of this), so I could just use that and let the host OS handle the redundancy (and use the 10 TB drive as a backup/spare). Alternatively (or if it doesn't have fakeRAID), I could use Windows Storage Spaces (would probably need to use the 10 TB as a boot drive and the 2 x 8 TB for Windows Storage Spaces). Or I could set up two virtual drives (one on each of the 8 TB drives) and use mdadm to get software RAID directly on the Ubuntu server.
Any thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!
I think the Dell XPS has fakeRAID (although not certain of this), so I could just use that and let the host OS handle the redundancy (and use the 10 TB drive as a backup/spare). Alternatively (or if it doesn't have fakeRAID), I could use Windows Storage Spaces (would probably need to use the 10 TB as a boot drive and the 2 x 8 TB for Windows Storage Spaces). Or I could set up two virtual drives (one on each of the 8 TB drives) and use mdadm to get software RAID directly on the Ubuntu server.
Any thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!